[mythtv-users] Prioritize new episodes...

[Robin Smith]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:33 AM, George Galt <george.galt at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Les Noland <lnoland at xnet.com> wrote:
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >
> >>From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> >> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of George Galt
> >
> >>Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 9:23 AM
> >
> >>To: Discussion about MythTV
> >
> >>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Prioritize new episodes...
> >
> >>
> >
> >>On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Kris B. <krisbee at krisbee.com> wrote:
> >
> >>> On Wednesday, September 14, 2011 9:04 AM, "Tom Bongiorno"
> >
> >>> <two.bits.11 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>>> I have a handful of kids shows that record once a week with the "Find
> >
> >>>> and record one showing of this title each week." setting in MythWeb.
> >
> >>>> I also limit the number of episodes per title.  This helps rotate my
> >
> >>>> catalog of kids shows.  This works well, but I want to ensure that new
> >
> >>>> episodes will be selected before reruns.  Is there an option that I am
> >
> >>>> missing or do I need to make a custom priority?  Thanks in advance.
> >
> >>>>
> >
> >>>> -Tom
> >
> >>>
> >
> >>> Tom, I am not sure this is even the right way to do it, but what I do
> is
> >
> >>> make two entries, and one of them has a higher priority (with a larger
> >
> >>> retain # of episodes cache), and filtered to new episodes only, and
> then
> >
> >>> I have a second entry for the same show with a lower priority.
> >
> >>>
> >
> >>> This is so I can get reruns of Family Guy and Simpsons, and they record
> >
> >>> daily and disappear after two weeks regardless, while new episodes will
> >
> >>> ALWAYS record due to the higher priority and stick around.  The reruns
> >
> >>> have a hard cut commercial remove and transcode so I can watch them on
> >
> >>> my rokus in any room commercial-free, while the newer episodes are
> >
> >>> transcoded, but no commercials are removed (but they are flagged).  The
> >
> >>> hard-cut isn't always perfect, and I lose the end credits/coda
> sometimes
> >
> >>> but since it is a rerun, I don't really care.
> >
> >>>
> >
> >>> --
> >
> >>>  Kris B.
> >
> >>>  krisbee at krisbee.com
> >
> >>>
> >
> >>>
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> >>
> >
> >>Kris:
> >
> >>
> >
> >>I tried something similar a while back, but the problem I encountered
> >
> >>was that the episodes that expired were treated as "deleted" for the
> >
> >>purposes of rescheduling, so even if I had never watched a rerun, if
> >
> >>it dropped off the queue, it was never re-recorded.  Do you have this
> >
> >>same issue, or have you found a way to have expired episodes be
> >
> >>treated as "deleted and allow re-record"?
> >
> >>
> >
> >>Thanks,
> >
> >>
> >
> >>George
> >
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> > George -
> >
> >
> >
> > If, in your lower priority rule (the one which is designed to pick up
> > reruns) you set in record options "Look for duplicates in current
> recordings
> > only" it should only avoid recording a show if it has it already
> recorded.
> >
> >
> >
> > - Les
> >
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> Les:
>
> Thanks.  I believe you intended to respond to the OP.
>
> My issue is that I **want** it to re-record episodes that it has
> already recorded and that were expired from the system.  I don't
> believe I've found a setting that says "treat expired recordings as
> 'delete and re-record'"  The system seems to always treat them as
> "delete (and do not re-record)".
>
> George
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I don't have the answer, other than to say that is NOT how my MythTV
behaves...
I have a storage rule for my kids' shows that says keep up to 3 episodes. It
is set to delete oldest. I find if it is deleted by this rule, it WILL
re-record if the episode re-airs. I did not have to pick a specific setting
for this to occur, it just did, so I am not sure what is different between
what I am doing and what you are doing.

Robin
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